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Slo-Valve: Members of ZOM Announce New Project

No audio yet that they’re willing to share, but I’m all for an alter-ego every now and then, and Pittsburgh-based ZOM offer one up in the form of Slo-Valve. New band, same dudes. ZOM have a new full-length in the can — their third — but like a lot of people, guitarist/vocalist Gero von Dehn was hanging around in Summer 2020 with perhaps a bit of creative restlessness happening that he decided either consciously or not to channel in a way that, apparently, was separate enough to be another band. And when it came to finding players? Well, there’s nothing like knowing a good bassist and drummer.

Slo-Valve it is. You can see the story below, courtesy of the PR wire, and I imagine if you keep an eye out you’ll see or hear something from them ahead of the album to be recorded this Fall.

To the blue copy:

Slo-Valve

Current members of ZOM launch new band, Slo-Valve

Three members of Pittsburgh, PA’s ZOM have formed a new band under the name, Slo-Valve.

Describing their sound as, “Hard rockin’, riff heavy groove,” the trio aims to swing through bluesy, stonery jams with strong song structures and enough dynamics to separate themselves from genre pigeonholing.

Says singer/guitarist Gero von Dehn, “We wrapped recording of the new (as yet unreleased) ZOM record early last summer and after all that intense focus, I needed to change gears. Writing, preproduction and tracking is such an all consuming process that it’s good to get away from it for a bit after being so hyperfocused. I had all of these different ideas coming but they were different from ZOM so I just went with it and within a few months I had a bunch of songs written.

Von Dehn didn’t have to look far to find people to jam the new material with.

“I’m so blessed to have such great musicians around me in ZOM and their versatility has barely been tapped.”

Enlisted were ZOM bandmates Ben Zerbe (drums) and Sam Pesce (bass).

“Ben is such a talent and a student as a percussionist. He can play pretty much any style and do it amazingly well, as anyone who’s heard The Mandrake Project can attest to. Those guys were on a different level.”

Zerbe also played drums in Pittsburgh doom powerhouse, Monolith Wielder with von Dehn.

“Sammy is a monster on bass and a guy everyone in Pittsburgh wants in their band and I was so fortunate he agreed to join ZOM. His playing and his ideas have been incredible and he’s really spreading his wings with the material in Slo-Valve. I may have come in with the original songs but it’s really been a group effort in terms of songwriting and where those ideas went. They were both eager to be part of the entire process, not just their own parts, and it’s really paid off. The songs are quite a bit different from where they started and I mean for the better. I can’t wait for people to hear what we’ve been able to put together.”

Von Dehn says they have enough material ready to go for an album and they hope to record sometime in the fall. That doesn’t mean ZOM has taken a back seat though.

“We’re ultra stoked for the ZOM album to be released because we are so proud of that entire record. I think it’s exactly the rock n’ roll album that’s needed right now. We’re dying to get out and play the new record in front of everyone. I’m just always writing so it was natural to put something else together, especially since it’s with the same guys. They want to jam as badly and as often as I do so we play constantly. It doesn’t hurt that they happen to be awesome dudes and great friends as well.”

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